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" Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something. "
You
Up
Hours
" Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process. "
Creative
Film
Pain
" I am a great believer that your humor is developed at a very early age, and it doesn't ever change. You're basically the same person forever, so you find the same stuff funny forever. "
Humor
Change
Age
" I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it. "
Just Because
People
Simple
" If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again. "
Know
People
Together
" I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like. "
Thought
World
Love
" I'm probably an overcompensating introvert. I live in Hollywood, but I don't go to parties where I have to work the room. I could do that, but I don't want to... I try and stay the same and live a fairly normal life. "
Hollywood
Live
Work
" In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically. "
Us
Show
History
" I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things. "
Remember
Grandparents
Think
" I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story. "
Worth
Yourself
Finding
" It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis. "
World
You
Dark
" I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence. "
Intelligence
Loved
Love
" I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role. "
Very
Worked
Both
" Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge. "
You
Funny
Challenge
" Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs. "
Cause
Muppet
Legs
" My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins. "
Historical
You
Work
" No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. "
Communist
Character
Way
" Personally, I've always liked movies about big diamonds, like 'Pink Panther' and 'The Thomas Crown Affair.' I've always found those films really interesting, and they have a good energy about them, which I like. "
Diamonds
Movies
Good
" The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love. "
Which
Very
Simple
" The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people. "
Adversity
See
Positive
" 'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way. "
Show
Late
Me
" There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally. "
You
Tribute
Own
" The thing about me is that my secret passion is history. "
Passion
Secret
Me
" When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly. "
Teach
You
Children
" You always want to aim high. "
Want
You
Aim
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